Carrie

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Summary: Great brief intro to King
Review: It's difficult to write something new about this book, so much has been written before. Aside from short stories this is one of easiest stories King has written, it's brief and to the point. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Carrie
Review: This horrifying and gory book called Carrie written by Stephen King is by far one of the best books I've ever read. This fiction book is about a girl who grows up with only one parent, her mom. Her mom teaches her that natural every day occurrences are acts of the devil and that they're sins. When Carrie talks about or commits one of these sins she is punished by being thrown into a closet where religious things are placed and she is forced to pray for hours on end.

Throughout the book Carrie is tormented by others just because she is a quiet individual. She is mainly tormented for not knowing what menstruation is. Her peers physically and mentally abuse her. This incident is so big that the school actually is going to court with the family of the ring leader of the ones who did this to Carrie.

Carrie finds out that she has these powers when she gets angry. When the menstruation incident occurred a light bulb blew out because she was so angry. Another time she found she had powers was when a little boy was tormenting her while she was walking down the street she mumbled to her that she wished he would fall over. She turned around and saw the little boy on the ground with his little bike on top of him. Towards the end of the book Carrie is finally fed up with her high school bullies. While attending a school dance Carrie uses her powers and starts a fire. Almost all of the students in attendance are trapped in the fire. A boy named Billy who Carrie hates and Sue Snell who feels bad for Carrie talk 2 the cops and the press. They inform them that Carrie did it. They find Carrie a ways away when they take off in their car and she is dripping wet with blood, but its not hers. She is also holding a butcher knife. Carrie later that night dies at 2:00 am of hemorage and shock. They turn her body over to the state of main to investigate TK. I liked this book a lot. I would recommend it to anyone who like thrills.

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Summary: Carrie
Review: I really enjoyed the book Carrie By Stephen King a great deal. The book was basically about a girl who grows up living with just her mom and how her mother is very religious and makes Carrie pray all the time and tells her that natural things that are supposed to happen to people are sins. Carrie learns to realize that she has some sort of a power but she cant make it work it only works when she gets really mad and she mumbles things under her breath like for instance when she in being tormented by the group of girls in the locker room she makes the light bulb smash just by getting so upset or when a little boy says something to her when shes walking down the street and she says she hopes he falls and smashes his head open she turns around and hes on the ground with his bike on top of him. Although parts of it were twisted and i didnt understand why anyone could bring themselves to do those sort of things it was still a good book. I almost want to feel bad for Carrie even though i know she isn't a real person because of what the other girls do to her especially Chris Hargensen. I dont believe how Carrie was brought up was right. Her mother was wrong in punishing her in the ways she did such as putting her in the closet so she could pray for hours and hours. I dont understand how her mother came to be this way since her parents were pretty much normal. I dont see why her mother doesnt tell her things that she needs to know like about women and what their body does. I think it is cool how in the book it gives you like a section every now and then on reports that they do on Carrie and her TK. I enjoyed this book very much and i find Stephen Kings books to be very good. I recommend you to read this book.

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Summary: "Nobody was Really Surprised, Not really"
Review: In 1974, a struggling reading teacher and aspiring part-time author named Stephen King published his first and most integral novel in his career, because it let him write full-time and it devoloped one of the best fiction writers of the 20th century, and the name of that novel was Carrie. Originally written as a short story, King was for no apparent reason disgusted with Carrie and threw it away. And thankfully King's wife Tabitha later found the story and read it in one sitting, and in realizing its genuis she almost forced him to publish it. After publishing it, Stephen King was immediately offered a staggering 400,000 dollar movie deal, of which King kept half. And of course this put King into the spotlight and as an author to look out for, and it allowed him to write full-time. Carrie the movie devoloped into one of the most memorable horror movies of the 70's, equally competing with the likes of The Exorsist and Rosemary's Baby. Carrie is a novel that deals with the troubles of high school, teen anxiety, and a certain bucket of pig blood. Here's an overview of Carrie:

Story: As the novel opens, we meet humble Carrie White, who battles constantly with being an outcast and dealing with her mother's extreme religious beliefs. After an unfortunate hazing accident in the locker's showers, caused by fellow classmates Chris Hargensed and Sue Snell, Carrie begins to hate her classmates and even more her mother, who is the prime example of a way overprotective mother. Carrie then takes a week off and begins to discover powers she barely knew she had, a kind of telekinesis that is passed down through generations and allows the user the all-powerful ability to distort objects to her will just by thinking. During her break, Sue Snell and Chris Hargensen are punished by having to go to a session of detention, and if they refuse to go, the school will withhold their prom tickets. Sue Snell, filling pity for Carrie and deeply sorry for what she's done, agrees to the detention, while the school miscreant Chris Hargensen refuses her detention, and is of course disallowed to the all-important prom. Sue still feeling sorry for Carrie makes her boyfriend(School Heartthrob,yada yada) Tommy Ross take Carrie to the prom, while Chris makes her boyfriend get a bucket of pig blood and place it above the Prom King and Queen throne, already knowing that Carrie and Tommy will win. Come Prom Night, Carrie is having the time of her life and for the first time in her life she feels accepted, And even more amazing to her, she is crowned Prom Queen. But upon reaching the throne, Chris Hargensen dumps a bucket of pig blood on Carrie. Carrie, enraged and feeling betrayed by her classmates, begins to use her powers to burn down the gym, with her classmates trapped inside, and continues to wreak havoc throughout the entire town, burning it like a dry leaf. And the last person Carrie kills is her mother, and she makes her heart go "Slower and slower" until it reaches a "Full stop". That night was from then on known as The Black Prom, and over 600 people died.

Writing: Although this is the one of the shortest novels Stephen King has written, it is one of his more complex and most thoughtful books to date. He shows what its like to be under the constant control of an unwanted mother and how it can affect somebody. He really makes the reader feel for Carrie, at first pitying for her and then in a macabre sort of way, rooting for her as she gives her classmates what they deserve. King is clever in his use of paragraphs, as he infuses (Fake) news articles, essays, book excerpts, and even a phony death certificate to make the story all the more plausible and use up the space between paragraphs. King's writing is fast-paced and relentless, never taking a break and almost forcing the reader to finish the novel in one sitting(I did). He cleverly uses similes and metaphors in his writing that are at times hilarious or phantasmaghoric. King really lets the reader believe in Telekinesis too, through his use of essays and examples of telekinetic happenings, and you get a tingle out of it. All in all, Stephen King writes Carrie as if he's been doing it all of his life, not his first novel.Carrie is a fast paced thrill-ride from start to finish and I recommend it to everybody.

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Summary: yuck!
Review: This book is grossly overrated and stinks completely. Two major features are to blame. First, the book is spoiled through a start-and-stop format (starting in story in 3rd person, then abruptly stopping and changing into a fictional book reference or interview, then going back to the 3rd person story--this sequence continues all through the book), Second, rather than just leaving it to speculation, the author tries to define/justify telekinesis as a genetic disorder and fails miserably at it. The story itself, while it starts out poetically, soon bogs down in sex obsession/religious quackery/biographical information, and, apart from an interesting lawyer/principal debate over discipline, never recovers. In regards to a scare factor this story's value is totally zilch.

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Summary: It was scary...
Review: ...back in 1971, when it was published. Today, in light of the fact that we have "The Ring," Freddy vs. Jason," and other scary movies, and "Rebecca," "Dracula," and other scary books, Carrie loses its horror. I mean... Edgar Allen Poe was considered the scariest writer of his time, and today? Well, I've read have his stuff and he still doesn't scare me, but i still like him.
Anyways... this book doesn't need to be scary. It's good. And I'm sure everyone can relate in someway. I know I can. If you're looking for nightmares, then this is the wrong book. But if you're looking for Stephen King's first classic, his awesome prelude to some 50-odd amazing stories, then this is the book for you. I liked it, and I am an avid fan (and positive critic) of Stephen King. This IS a classic!

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Summary: Must Read!
Review: I think that this book was very interesting. It kept me wanting to read it and the plot was good. The way the other girls made fun of her and how she got revenge. I loved the ending and I did not see that coming, but I really liked it. I think this book would only be for mature adults and would keep everyone involved in it. I would recommend this book to my friends and family.

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Summary: Humanities 10 review by Ryan Fouss
Review: Carrie is a story of a girls horrible life that changed into a bloody revenge. Having to endure a life of torment by her classmates Carrie finds that she posses the terrifying power of telekinesis. Telekinesis is the power to be able to move objects with the control of your mind. Carrie saw that her newly found power could be used to take revenge on those who caused her all of her pain throughout her life.
While reading Carrie, the whole book is able to keep the readers at the edge of their seats throughout the whole book. The plot of the story begs the reader to continue reading. When starting to read this book, the reader is initially hooked by how the reader express how horrible Carries life has been, he shows examples of her being bullied. Suddenly strange occurrence start happening which keeps the reader buried in the book to figure out what is happening to her, then finally once her talent is reviled the reader cant put down the book, in order to seen what, and how she gets her revenge.
Carrie is a book appropriate for younger teen, but can still be appreciated adults as well. The book does not contain a difficult vocabulary, this is because the story is being told from the stand point of a high school teenager. What is appealing to the range of all ages is that the book is based on certain human emotions such as self-consciousness , hate, revenge, and fear, which are concepts that everyone has felt at one point in their lives. Everyone has thought dirty, nasty thoughts against someone they have hated, this book brings those visions to life, and paints the reader a gory picture of what happens.
The book is for not for the light hearted reader, at time the reader might find themselves having to put down the book to take a breather. As a personal note to the reader, beware, and enjoy.

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Summary: Carrie, the weird girl with Telekenisis...
Review: Carrie White was a weird little girl. When she threw fits...something broke, or moved. One day when she was a small girl, only four, saw her neighbor outside in a white two piece bathing suit. Carrie was curious and she wandered over to the yard, and saw the neighbor's 'dirtypillows'. "What are those?" "Those are my breasts, Carrie" Carrie's mother was horrified at what she had seen. Mrs. White screamed and scratched her face, and called Carrie to her closet to pray. Carrie screamed and kicked inside, and suddenly it stopped, and there was banging and clattering above them. People on Carrie White's street were horrified. Stones and ice were falling hard from the sky. From that day, Carrie's mother knew something was wrong...Did she have a special gift? Or was it coincidence? Oh, it couldn't be coincidence...Carrie White had something...Carrie White had Telekinesis...a rare gift of the mind that would enable that person to move things, break things, bend things and even make very unexplainable things happen. Carrie White had that power...and she caused the damnedest things to happen to the people of Carrie's town.
I really enjoyed reading this book. I like reading the horror genre, and if you do too, you'll love Stephen King's Carrie. I liked this novel because it was horrifying, interesting and it kept my attention. King is a great writer, and you can almost feel Carrie's anger, sadness, fear, confusion, bewilderment, and embarrassment. The one thing I did not like about the book was: it was fast. King wrote it nicely, yet everything was happening quickly. I like books with a lot of action, but with spaces between each event. King did this, yet the spaces were not long enough. I like to read books that explain each little thing gradually working up to the event. Other than that, King did a wonderful job at making a great, horrifying novel. You should really read it today!
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Summary: Carrie
Review: After reading Carrie I can see why it is a Steven King Classic. Carrie demonstrates the amazing description that King is known for, although it can sometimes be overwhelming. the writing style was unique but magnificent. This was obviously one of King's best works!